Condoms and other items were regularly sent in the post to the senator by conservative critics and a false rumour was spread that the chain of pharmacies Hayes, Conyngham Robinson was owned by her family ( and so therefore that her promotion of contraception was an attempt to benefit members of her family ).

The Flemings were lords of Slane from the twelfth century until seventeenth century, when the Conyngham family replaced them as lords of Slane during the Williamite Confiscations.

He was the great-nephew of another Henry Conyngham, 1st Earl Conyngham, a member of a family of Scottish descent which had settled during the Plantation of Ulster in County Donegal in Ireland in the early 17th century.

Lord Albert Denison Conyngham, third son of the first Marquess, assumed the surname of Denison in lieu of Conyngham in 1849 on succeeding to the vast fortune of his maternal uncle William Joseph Denison, and was raised to the peerage as Baron Londesborough the following year ( see this title for more information on this branch of the family ).

The most notable building in the town is the 17th century Plantation house, Springhill, built and owned by the Conyngham, later Lenox-Conyngham family but since 1957 in the ownership of the National Trust.

The castle has been the family home of the Conyngham family since the 18th century.

The present head of the Conyngham family and occupant of Slane Castle is The Most Hon.

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After the king's death in 1830, it has been alleged that some of this mixed collection was stolen by his mistress, Lady Conyngham, and some of his remaining personal items were discreetly liquidated to cover the many debts he had left behind him.

The new 2nd Baron Conyngham, who had earlier represented Killybegs and County Clare in the Irish House of Commons, assumed by Royal license the surname and arms of Conyngham on succeeding to the titles.

Willers ’ s successor John Conyngham had worked for the paper since the early eighties and so was thoroughly familiar with its workings.

Franklin had been entrusted with several commissions of the Continental Navy, and on March 1, 1777 Conyngham was appointed as Captain of the lugger Surprise.

Unfortunately for Conyngham, France had a treaty with England that forbade the selling of commandeered good in French ports, and when Lord Stormont, an English official, heard of Conyngham ’ s actions he demanded that France return the Joseph and arrest him.

It is ironic that the first friendly port Conyngham had seen in years would treat him so poorly.

However, because Conyngham had been so successful as her captain, he was again given command with orders to raid British shipping for a private profit.

Franklin wrote to General George Washington about Conyngham ’ s missing commission, and Washington wrote to the British saying that if Conyngham met with the noose, he would hang six of the British officers he had captured.

Conyngham and eleven other prisoners had broken into the prison vault allowing them to use tools to dig a tunnel extending “ a considerable distance ” underneath the outer wall of the prison.

* Lady Jane Conyngham ( 1826 – 1900 ), married Francis Spencer, 2nd Baron Churchill and had issue.

* Lady Cecilia Augusta Conyngham ( d. 1877 ), married Sir Theodore Brinckman, 2nd Baronet and had issue.

* Lady Frances Caroline Martha Conyngham ( 1827 – 1898 ), married Gustavus Lambart and had issue.

* Sir Hubert George Brand ( 1870 – 1955 ) married Norah Conyngham Greene ( d. 1924 ) on 28 January 1914 ; they had two daughters: Elizabeth Norah Brand ( b. 1915 ) and Mary Kathleen Brand ( b. 1921 ).

Shutz, Shay & Heebner operated the colliery until August 1869, when they sold their rights to Broderick, Conyngham & Co. At the same time, BC & C entered into leases to operate the Nottingham Colliery, the old John Smith mine and the old Abijah Smith mine, and from then on all four mines were operated under common management.

In Ireland, the current Lord Conyngham was popularly known, from 1974 until March 2009, as Henry Mount Charles.

* 21 January-Theodore Conyngham Kingsmill Moore, senior counsel, represented Dublin University in the Seanad from 1943 to 1948

Overlooking the River Boyne, just a few kilometres upstream from Newgrange and the site of the famous Battle of the Boyne, Slane Castle in its existing form was constructed under the direction of William Burton Conyngham, together with his nephew The 1st Marquess Conyngham.

The castle is owned by The 8th Marquess Conyngham, who was known as the Earl of Mount Charles from 1974 until 2009.

Recognizing that Conyngham was a talented sailor from his clever avoidance of the British within their own channel, Franklin set about obtaining a new ship for him.

In fact, it was only by the watchful hand of Benjamin Franklin that Conyngham was kept from the gallows.

He was the son of the cricketer Bernard Bosanquet, ( who was inventor of the googly ) and great great grandson of Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, Lord Chief Justice from 1829 – 1843.

The museum of St. Andrews University in Scotland has in its collection a snuff box full of pubic hair of one of King George IV's mistresses, possibly Elizabeth Conyngham, which the notoriously licentious monarch donated to the Fife sex club, The Beggar's Benison.

The House of Lords asked a panel of judges, presided over by Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, a series of hypothetical questions about the defence of insanity.

Gustavus Conyngham ( about 1744 – 27 November 1819 ) was born in County Donegal, Ireland, and was a merchant sea captain, officer in the Continental Navy and a privateer.

Captain Klader's men made it as far north as present-day Conyngham, when they were ambushed by the Seneca nation and by the Tories.

The fifteen founders were: William Woodruff Atwater, Dr. Edward Griffin Bartlett, Frederic Peter Bellinger, Jr., Henry Case, Colonel George Foote Chester, John Butler Conyngham, Thomas Isaac Franklin, William Walter Horton, The Honorable William Boyd Jacobs, Professor Edward VanSchoonhoven Kinsley, Chester Newell Righter, Dr. Elisha Bacon Shapleigh, Thomas DuBois Sherwood, Albert Everett Stetson, and Orson William Stow.

The concerts were launched by the then Earl of Mount Charles ( popularly known for several decades as Henry Mount Charles and known since March 2009 as The 8th Marquess Conyngham ), the owner of the castle.

This time, instead of waiting to be captured, Conyngham sold the Charming Peggy to the Dutch government in order to be able to purchase a new ship when under less suspicion.

In July 1834 Lord Conyngham joined the Whig government of Lord Melbourne as Postmaster General, a post he retained until the government fell in December of the same year, and briefly held the same post under Melbourne again between April and May 1835.

* The Sunny South, a collection of letters, published under the pen name Kate Conyngham.

From left to right: The King, Henry Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk | Earl of Surrey, Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington | Marquess of Douro, James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury | Viscount Cranborne, George Pratt, 2nd Marquess Camden | Earl of Brecnock, Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey | Earl of Uxbridge, George Cholmondeley, 2nd Marquess of Cholmondeley | Earl of Rocksavage, George Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Marquess of Hastings | Earl of Rawdon, Henry Chetwynd-Talbot, 18th Earl of Shrewsbury | Viscount Ingestre and Francis Conyngham, 2nd Marquess Conyngham | Lord Francis Conyngham.

Lord Conyngham was also Vice-Admiral of Ulster between 1849 and 1876 and Lord-Lieutenant of County Meath between 1869 and 1876.

Aristes is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Conyngham Township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Conyngham Township is a township in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Conyngham is a borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States.

In 1815 Redmond Conyngham served a term in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing Luzerne County, and in 1820 served a term in the State Senate.

Conyngham Township is a township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States.

According to Samuel L. French, author of Reminiscences of Plymouth, Luzerne County, Penna., "... the present Borough of Plymouth was erected by decree of Honorable John N. Conyngham, President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County, on the 23rd day of April, A. D., 1866, upon the recommendation of the Grand Jury ..."

* Conyngham Township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania

* Conyngham Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

Marquess Conyngham, of the County of Donegal, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland.

In 1753 he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Conyngham, of Mount Charles in the County of Donegal, and in 1756 he was created Viscount Conyngham, in Ireland, also in the Peerage of Ireland.

In 1781 he was made Baron Conyngham, of Mount Charles in the County of Donegal, with remainder to his nephew Francis Burton, and Earl Conyngham, of Mount Charles in the County of Donegal, which like the creations of 1753 and 1756 was created with normal remainder to the heirs male of his body.

He was created Viscount Conyngham, of Mount Charles in the County of Donegal, in 1789, Viscount Mount Charles and Earl Conyngham in 1797, and Viscount Slane, in the County of Meath, Earl of Mount Charles and Marquess Conyngham, of the County of Donegal, in 1816.